Compare two date and time objects

erbedo · by **erbedo** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:41 pm

Hi
I got from an XML file a list of string in this format:
yyyyMMddhhmmss
I need to compare this values to the current time.
I tried to do:

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                                DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
 
                                Date date = new Date();
 
                                String timeNow = dateFormat.format(date);
 
                                // start is a long variable, containing a number in the format above
 
                                if ( start >= timeNow ) {
 
                                     // doSomething()
 
                                }
 
                        }
 
Parsed in 0.031 seconds,  using GeSHi 1.0.8.4

But i got NullPointerException

Any hint?

erbedo · by **erbedo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:32 am

Update:

I found that such a number, like the above, is too big for a long variable. Actually, I've solved splitting the string in two part, date and time, and comparing each other to the current date and time, but... I hope there's another, appropriate method, but I wasn't able to find it out. Anybody knows it?

TIA

Compare two date and time objects

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